[Bug 212812] www/chromium: tabs "hang" 10% of the time

[Jan Beich]

Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> writes:

> On 20/07/2018 19:28, bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212812
>>
>> --- Comment #81 from Jan Beich <jbeich at FreeBSD.org> ---
>> Can someone check if the patch in bug 181741 has any effect? Maybe some hangs
>> (e.g., cache on high latency storage but not GPU driver bugs) are due to IPC.
>>
>> Just a wild guess.
>>
> Do you know in which version of Chrome it ended up?

FreeBSD 12.0 or try -CURRENT. Only kernel matters, you can postpone
upgrading base/userland and ports/packages as long as the kernel config
contains COMPAT_FREEBSD10 and/or COMPAT_FREEBSD11.

Background:

  An innocuous change in Firefox 63 made tabs hang on *every* page, so a
  Mozilla engineer that maintaines IPC code got curious and tracked it
  down to a kernel bug. As Firefox IPC is based on old Chromium IPC I
  made a guess that Chromium may suffer from a similar issue but whether
  it's related to the notorious hanging tabs is unknown.

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475970#c7
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476130